Preface Part II the Presbyterian Church Universal

U P' O N T H I S R O C K Preface I Part I The Presbyterian Church Universal Part II The Early Years Part III The Struggle for Existence Pa rt IV The Era of Expansion Part V The Missionary Vision Part VI The Middle Years Part VII “Behold I Make All Things New Epilogue Appendix 1 t e . Character Sketches of Char er M mbers 2 List of Ministers 8 List of Directors of Christian Education 4 List of Elders and Clerks of Session 5 . List of Deacons 6 List of Presidents of The Women of the Church 7 Centennial Celebration Committees PR EFACE ! istory is not easily written . Memories of earlier ages have vanish a ll information , sometimes too sketchy , has faded with time . An ht — g here , a footnote there , a story remembered all these must be re d together . Jaquelin Drane Nash in her history of our neighbor rch h a s , Calvary Episcopal Church , written ' Pontiu s Pil a te s qu e s tion Wh a t i s i s the cry of e ve ry o ne be e a nd x i e ke w h k , g inn r e pe r n ce d a li , o s e e s to find out s ca a a nd ma k a hi tori l f ct e of it a n a ccu r te a ccou nt of thing s pa s t . Errors a nd contra di ction s a re fou nd p rinte d on the p a g e s of v hi s tory a nd e ng ra e d on i ts s ton e s . T his hi s tory i s s ure to be k fu ll of s u ch mi s ta e s , a nd doubtl e s s i u s t a s ma ny thin g s a re l e ft a s a v be e e e ve e w a out h e n in clud d , in s pite of ry ffort to rd a c cu ra cy . h are the sentiments of the writers of this history of Howard m r o ial Presbyterian Church . But no history has ever been written h e x eri more love and joy than UPON THIS ROCK . It was an p e in thanksgiving . l a w and Brookes Peters worked with untiring effort for many m i ths to secure every available document , sess onal record , individual , ory , newspaper account , letters , Synod records , and even oral li ti n . o . Bit by bit the sources were fitted together Each new dis — — ery prompted delight o ften laughter but always thanksgiving t some insight had been gained . i e ca u se 1 940s Mary and Brookes moved from Tarboro in the early , 1 970s to return permanently until retirement in the early , their ;ory covers that period from 1 874 to 1 942 Future generations shall e r n e grateful for th i dilige c and faithfulness . T - i n- McClu re heir daughter law , Frances Peters , became a member Howard Memorial in the mid - forties and takes up the pen and the : ory where her relatives stop . Having been a child of the manse I a an active member of our church in every area , Fr nces writes h . v insight , knowledge , and subtle humor E en under a tight sh e edule and with many pressures , has labored faithfully and well , s her custom . It ha s be e n my task to put the two histories together , to impose l i n I them the present form , to provide what information could i a nd e c a nd o cca si o na llv a dd n Mv from church f les r ords . to a sente ce . g o v nri vi le e i n p r t o a , reatest this ex e ience has been share with M r . : d Brookes and Frances many hours of conversation to pon er , laugh . a rv and m‘ a v to g et her : but most o f all t o witness the streng th of thei r faith in Jesus Christ T he I a l Congregation and are so grateful to our church secretary . e a nd . Virginia Satterthwaite . who labor d on the manuscripts to A o Whitfield Fountain who managed the publicati n . “ UPON THIS ROCK the hi sto rv of Howard Memo rial Presby t erian Church yet unwritten remains secure . Robert E . Burns , III The M anse Tarboro , North Carolina 23 1 9 4 August , 7 vi PART I TH E PR ES BYTER IAN CH U RCH U N lVERSAL The Church ’ s one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord ; She is His new Creation By water and the word : From Heaven He came and sought her To be His holy Bride; With His own blood He bought her, And for her life He died . 1 866 Samuel J . Stone , P The resbyterian Church , while deriving her roots in the Bible , gets he r name from her form of government . Presbyterian means literally , “ ” “ ” “ ” res bu te ro s . governed by elders . The Greek word p means elder A Presbyterian church is governed by elders elected by the people . T he form of government , therefore , is called representative as opposed “ to the episcopal and the congregational forms . ( Year Book of the r 1 6 J . 1 9 e . Presbyt rian Church , by the Rev Dr R A Lapsley , , 191 70 i The orig n of the Protestant Church begins with the Reformation . T he church does not attempt to trace her history through a long line of characters to the time of the apostles . She does claim , however , that the church in their time was governed by elders (Titus James I Peter The“ word “elder ” is used sixty times and word ” bishop five times in the New Testament , both referring to the same o ffice . After the church emerged from the superstition and error into which she had fallen during the middle ages and Scripture was once m ore given its rightful place in religious teaching , the great majority of the Reformers accepted the Presbyterian form of government for t e h simple reason that it was the Scriptural form . (Ibid) In his Yearbook , Dr . Lapsley writes , The history of the Presby h . terian Church a s been a glorious one . In the early days through the fires of martyrdom and through rivers of Covenanters of Scotland a nd the Huguenots of France are ” I i illustrations of the type of character she produced . ( b c t always stood for belief in Christ , the divine son of God , d e t e rmi na ti c Bible as the inspired word of God , and a ’ ' out with commitment a nd zeal Christ s last command t c the world . The Presbyterian Church has always emphasized the ! of sound doctrine . She denies that a man may safely beli _ (3 if he is only sincere . She holds that character depends o n] fruit depends on root . (Lapsley) Our Creed is found in C a t e ch ' which consist of the Shorter Catechism , the Larger a re s i Westminster Confession of Faith . These standards T he n ments of the principal truths set forth in the Bible . ’ in it that is not plainly taught in God s Word . D uring the Reformation Martin Luther stands as one heroic figures of the age , but he did not work out an) r theology or any detailed form of church government . It John Calvin to become the great constructive leader of tl d tion , and to work out from the Scriptures a profoun v ] theology, known as Calvinism , and the representati e for ” government which we call Presbyterianism . So writes b e r n he H r B e Pre s t i a s T i r i s to a nd li e s . Lingle in y , y f Calvin ’ s work of 400 years ago has made an enormous to the civic as well as to the church representative forn Ii ment and thus to the human freedom which we enjoy . by many that the government of the United States of ’ patterned along the concepts which were Calvin s . Ranke , “ : a l i n 1 philosopher , says John C y was the virtual founder “ t : n( Bancroft , the American his orian , says He who will memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows but ” origin of American liberty . PART I I TH E EAR LY YEARS n 23 1 909 Presbyteria Church , which on May , , was rw a rd Memorial Presbyterian Church , is a part of the i s Christ Universal , and of the Presbyterian and R e of churches , affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in o ry of a beloved Presbyterian church which was planted )s in the small town of Tarboro , North Carolina . With n f those at Washi gton , Goldsboro and New Bern , there terian church in this area of eastern North Carolina at - 287 y seven counties and boasting a population of , o f Tarboro , it was believed , was already so sufficiently ;he Gospel that another organization was not needed ; 7 no a a as room for another church . What pity to m ke would be such a waste of effort and of money too ! ele ss to undertake a task where success was so remote .

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